Best Residences For The Mentally Ill In Vancouver Near Me

4worldlovers: Tickets are now available for the 25th Anniversary in-person Courage To Come Back Awards!

Join us on June 9th, 2023 to celebrate five British Columbians who have had the courage to overcome illness or adversity and come back to give back to their community.

We are thrilled that for the first time in three years, the Courage To Come Back Awards, presented by Wheaton Precious Metals Corp., will be held again in person. We hope you will be be in the room with us for this momentous event.

4worldlovers: Since 1975, The Bloom Group has been providing individuals with permanent homes combined with on-site support services to promote residents’ health and well-being, quality of life, social inclusion, and sense of self-determination. Today, we provide 81 individuals with chronic mental health challenges with a stable home in the Downtown Eastside. Our mental health housing is just part of a continuum of housing that meets a diverse range of needs in the community and provides 178 residents on fixed or low-incomes, at risk of homelessness, with a place to call home. Our housing has no time limit. Residents are welcome to stay as long as they are able and we can adequately provide care as needed.

All residents are referred by Mental Health Housing Services, a program of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

Mental Health Housing provides for a centralized intake and referral process for adults over the age of 19 who are unable to live independently related to a serious and persistent mental health issue. Mental Health Housing manages the intake and the waitlist for Vancouver Coastal Health funded mental health and supported housing service providers.

Referral to Mental Health Housing requires the referral to be made by a Vancouver Coastal Health Mental Health Team or a General Hospital.

Victory House is a supportive, nurturing home with 24hr on-site care for 48 residents. Our residents are encouraged to increase their stability, independence, and self-worth by working toward self-directed wellness goals that recognize and build on each individual’s strengths. Wellness goals are developed and achieved with input and assistance from care teams and families.

At Santiago Lodge and Cecelia House, 33 residents live more independently with access to an on-site Licensed Practical Nurse and a variety of community supports that promote health, recovery, social inclusion, and independence.

“Worker program” that provides monthly allowance for residents that choose to assist with building upkeep or help lead group activities

4worldlovers:
We acknowledge our work at MPA Society takes place on the traditional and unceded territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Matsqui, Qayqayt, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) Nations of the lower mainland, sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Semyome (Semiahmoo), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Sumas, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations.



We offer a dynamic working environment, competitive wages and benefits, and an opportunity to grow professionally with the organization.


MPA endeavors to offer a comprehensive array of social, recreational and skill building activities to people living with mental illness.

Inspiring hope and supporting recovery for people with mental illness by establishing and operating social, vocational, recreation, advocacy and housing programs that support people in their own communities.

MPA Society is a recognized leader in providing community based mental health service programs. MPA members work in partnership with staff towards the goal of recovery from mental illness.

In 2021, MPA Society turned 50! To celebrate this milestone, we invited MPA members to share stories about their experiences throughout the years.

Watch the YouTube video to listen to the voices of the MPA members we support every day.

In 1971 MPA was formed by a grass roots group of mental patients and like-minded individuals, and began offering housing alternatives and support to people facing the challenges of mental illness.

MPA now facilitates housing and support for over 1,000 people in 13 municipalities in the GVRD and employs over 300 staff in 34 unique programs that offer a range of services including advocacy, community resources, homeless outreach, and a continuum of community, supported, enhanced, licensed and housing first programs.

Comfortable homes, caring professional support and understanding offer people with a mental illness the foundations for recovery.

The MPArt Studio is a self-directed art studio located at the Resource Centre on 7th & Fir. Here, members are able to participate in